AMD Phenom X4 9650: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Phenom X4 9650 sales on March 2008. This is an Agena architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2300 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM2+ processor with a TDP of 95 Watt.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 1.12% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Phenom X4 9650 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2251
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money4.72
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameAgena (2007−2008)
Release dateMarch 2008 (16 years old)
Current price$34 of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Boost clock speed2.3 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache2 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography65 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size285 mm2
Number of transistors450 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Phenom X4 9650 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM2+
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom X4 9650. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Phenom X4 9650 1.12

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Phenom X4 9650 1713

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Phenom X4 9650 238

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Phenom X4 9650 765

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Phenom X4 9650 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Phenom X4 9650 is Celeron G1630, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Phenom X4 9650, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom X4 9650 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1315 configurations based on Phenom X4 9650 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.8% (10/1315)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.2% (3/1315)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.3% (4/1315)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.08% (1/1315)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.08% (1/1315)
RX 6800 Radeon RX 6800
0.08% (1/1315)
RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 7700 XT
0.08% (1/1315)
TITAN RTX TITAN RTX
0.08% (1/1315)
GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.08% (1/1315)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.2% (2/1315)

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